Imitation embroidery.



.PAT-ENTED p01: 24, 1905.:

N. NOEL. IMITATION EMBROIDERY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1904.

UNITED STATES NICOLAS NOEL, OF ST. OHAMOND, FRANCE.

IIVIITATION EMBROIDERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Oct. 24, 1905.'

Application filed January t, 1904. Serial No. 187,675.

To all wit/mt it Iii/my concern:

Be it known that I, N IooLAs NOEL, acitizen of the French Republic, and a resident of St. Chamond, Loire, France, have invented certain new and useful Imitation Embroidery, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to letters of the alphabet, figures, and other embroidered signs the characteristic feature whereof resides in the fact that the letters and signs are made with a cord having swollen portions. These letters applied on paper are intended to be sewed upon all kinds of tissue. They are made of thread or cord having some parts thicker than others, corresponding to the calligraphic outline of a previously-made design.

The annexed drawings, given by way of example, represent a form and an application of a letter according to this invention, and in the drawings Figure 1 shows the previously-made design of the letter. Fig. 2 shows the twisted cord which has to serve for the formation of the letter. Fig. 3 shows the cord stuck upon a sheet of paper and forming the letter ready to be placed in commerce. Fig. 4 shows the partially-swollen cord attached with the paper upon a tissue. Fig. 5 shows a finished letter made with this cord and sewed upon a tissue.

The letter is first designed, as shown in Fig. 1, wherein the letter L has been chosen as an example. The outlines of this design are then developed, so as to form a model to which the special cord (shown in Fig. 2) will be made, and the different swollen and contracted parts whereof, (indicated, respectively, by the figures 1 to 10, Fig. 2,) correspond to the thick strokes and hair strokes represented by similar figures in Fig. 1. This cord is then stuck upon the design, Fig. 3, representing the aforesaid letter and executed upon a sheet of paper, so that the said cord exactly covers the design. The letter is then ready to be supplied to the trade. The body of the cord is composed of a strand Wrapped transversely and progressively from end to end thereof. Thus to the eye the transverse coils or wrappings referred to, after the cord is applied to a background, present the appearance of transverse stitches, apparently passing through the backing. In this way the eye is deceived, and the attached letter or figure presents the appearance of having been embroidered in the usual manner upon the backing.

Articles such as that above described can be made in all sizes, materials, and shades. It is needless to say that cords may be manufactured comprising the execution of several copies of the same letter. these copies being afterward separated one from the other.

The application of the letter or sign upon any tissue whatsoever is performed in the following manner: The sheet of paper 'upon which the letter is stuck is tacked upon the tissue intended to receive it at the required spot, as well as the different portions of the cord forming the said letter. The paper is then withdrawn and the cord sewed upon the tissue with thread.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a cord composed of a strand having transverse twists and adapted to be attached to a backing, said twists representing transverse embroiderystitches on said backing.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a cord. composed of a strand with transverse twists, said cord varying in diameter according to a pattern, and being adapted for attachment to a backing, said twists representing embroidery-stitches on said backing.

NICOLAS NOEL.

In presence of- DUGULTY DENIS, ALBERT PEcAUn. 

